Google is expected to
report earnings after the bell on Thursday, and millennials
are buying shares of Google 80% more often than they are selling
ahead of its earnings, according to data from the no-fee stock
trading app, Robinhood. This is a big surge of confidence for the
company compared to the previous quarter, when only 20% of young
investors using the app were buying more than they were selling.

Google's move into hardware may be paying off as its
voice-controlled Google Home Mini, Pixel 2 smartphone, and
Pixelbook laptop have been seen as formidable competitors to
Apple's
Siri and Amazon's
Alexa.

On trading platform Stockpile, which allows users to hold
fractional shares of companies, Google was the sixth-most held
stock on its platform among millennials. Young investors were
buying shares of Google 5.3 times more than they were selling,
according to Stockpile data.

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The tech world seems to be even more confident about Google's
stock performance. Silicon Valley investors bought Google 120%
more than they were selling, according to Robinhood.

"Investors based in Silicon Valley, where Alphabet is
headquartered, appear to be more optimistic - potentially due to
Alphabet recently announcing Waymo's partnership with Fiat
Chrysler Automobiles," Arpan Shah, a data engineer at
Robinhood, wrote in an email.